What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why. – Allen Tate
How much do we owe the people we love? Now I would add a follow-up question: How do we cope with the fact that we can’t necessarily give the people we love what they need? – Ann Packer
When I was an academic, I’d sometimes get a little feeling of excitement when I had an idea that was, I hoped, fresh. And whether anyone should act on that idea is a very different question. – Cass Sunstein
To date or not to date that is the question. It’s almost as important as Shakespeare’s to be or not to be which deals with death. – Al Goldstein
Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art. – Barbara Goldsmith
To know whether stocks are cheap or pricey, we typically look at price-to-earnings ratio. Valuation is a tougher question than many folks realize. – Barry Ritholtz
We need to question technology to insure that markets continue to perform their fundamental purposes. – Bart Chilton
The question is always ‘What is the role of a labor movement?’ How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers? – Andy Stern
The more the relationships of the nitrogen-rich substances to the cell nucleus were recognized, the more the question of the arrangement of the nitrogen and carbon atoms in the molecule came to stand out. – Albrecht Kossel
I’m a feminist, of course, and I feel as if I’m very politically correct, although I do question what’s P.C. and what’s not – I don’t just accept what I’m told. – Beth Ditto
‘What comes next?’ is the constant question I’m asked by outsiders eager to travel to the island. During the eleven years I traveled to Havana, very few Cubans I met on the island ever bothered to verbalize this question. – Brin-Jonathan Butler
As far as the Middle East and North Africa is concerned, we need to reconsider the question of reliability and stability of hydrocarbons. – Alexey Miller
In the U.S., hospitals are rewarded for keeping hospital beds full. That’s the market at work. The question is: should we work for the market, or should the market work for us? – Alex Gibney
If I couldn’t do it, then I’d be defeated. I’ve got the tools to do it. I never did question my tools. – Billy Higgins
The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fast enough. – Angela Merkel
Local commerce, without question, will be one of the fundamental use cases enabled by mobile devices over the next several years. – Andrew Mason
Our players are role models; there’s no question about it. Whether they want to be or not. They are. So they’re in the spotlight. So if they do something that’s wrong, that’s in the spotlight, too. – Bob McNair
There is no question that the minority party always makes a sport of going after the governor. – Bob McDonnell
To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner. – Anne Rice
It’s a question of trying to take down by dictation what’s already there. I’m not making something, I’m trying to hear it. – Alice Oswald
I’m not going to deny it. I’m a neat person, there’s no question. But I don’t become obsessed with it. – Courteney Cox
What should a song be about? It’s a trick question for songwriters because lots of amazing songs aren’t ‘about’ anything. Or, at least, they’re not about anything that’s obvious or logical. – Adam Schlesinger